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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Honore" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <honore15yroldd3@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 11:32:19 -0000
Subject: The Fund USD $ 30.500.000,00


I contact you base on my urgent assistance in transfer of my funds from my country due to

the war crisis which have make me to runs for my life to village and more so I am the only

Daughter of my late parents who die through the recently war, Presently I am in village now

suffering and afraid of returning back to abidjan. I have be in contact with the bank

manager of my late father he told me that The Fund USD $ 30.500.000,00 is there at BANK

there in abidjan cote d'ivoire, after I heard a long discussion with the bank director

today about my later father fund that is still under their custody and the bank director

told me that the best way to transfer the fund is for the bank to put the fund of the sum

of USD $ 30.500.000.00 (Thirty Millions Five hundred thousand United state Dollars) to a

ATM visa and send the ATM visa card to you in your country in other for you to withdrew sum

of $5000 each day from the visa.

But before that will be done the bank will requested from you your full name and address

with telephone number and scan your international passport or your drivers license in other

to have a file of your identity.

And I want to inform you that the bank manager has given me assurance that they are ready

to transfer the funds. When the amount of U.S. $ 30.500.000.00 million fund is transferred

to you,


The director told me that the soon the above information is received then the bank will

process the order of the electronic visa card (ATM CARD) and post the visa card to you

which will bears your information The director told me that the secret code of the card

will not be post alone with the visa card for a security reason that as soon as, you

received the visa card you will call for the secret code to be giving to you.


The director said that, if you agreed to this order you can contact the bank with your

sincere agreement email or letter in other for the bank to process the order of the visa

card.


Be it that the fund what deposited as an foreign investment fund and now i am seeking for a

good person that know more about an investment be it that i am just 15 years old girl and i

do not know anything about investment and now that there is war and crisis in my country i

will need an urgent transfer of the fund via the ATM visa card to be executed to you which

is the reason i have contacted you with trust and confident.

I wait to hear from you on this email: honore15yrsold@pop.com.br


I wait for your quick respond on this email: honore15yrsold@pop.com.br

Miss Honore Desire Tagro
honore15yrsold@pop.com.br

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